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Jimmy Page performing on stage at the Seattle Coliseum, playing Gibson Les Paul guitar

Three Sure-Fire Ways to Break out of That Old Minor-Pentatonic Deadlock

By Mac Randall published

Completely alter your use of the minor pentatonic scale using these examples in the style of Jimmy Page, Noel Gallagher, Robert Fripp, Peter Green and Eric Clapton

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Expand Your Melodic Vocabulary and Attain Superior Fretboard Awareness With 'Parallel Pentatonic Modal Vision'

By Chris Buono published

Learn PPMV – an insightful mapping of the pentatonic scale’s multifaceted natural order

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Living Colour guitarist Vernon Reid perform Parkpop festival, The Hague, Netherlands, 25 June 1989.

“Is the Music an Expression of Your State of Being, Or is it Something You're Just Taking On?” Vernon Reid Talks Jazz, Theory and the Spirit of the Blues

By Joe Gore published

The Living Colour guitarist gets real in this interview from the GP archives.

Guitarists
BB Playing a 1960s Gibson ES-330TD

Here’s Some Blues You Can Really Use

By Rob Laing, Jon Bishop, Chris Bird published

Improve your playing with this master class on everything you need to know for better blues.

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Al Di Meola

Pentatonic Substitutions: How and Where to Use Them

By Tom Kolb published

Learn some more musically useful and colorful applications of a familiar scale.

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Break out of the pentatonic rut with these five phrases

Beyond the Box: Five Phrases to Get You Out of the Pentatonic Rut

By Guitar Player Staff published

Five ways to push the pentatonic box’s boundaries and even break them altogether.

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John Mayer

An Introduction to Pentatonic Substitutions

By Tom Kolb published

In part one of this two-part lesson, learn some new and musically colorful applications of a familiar scale.

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How to Hack the Five Pentatonic Scale Shapes

By Vinnie DeMasi published

Learn how to use the five pentatonic box shapes in real-time soloing over a groove or song.

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Spruce Up Your Pentatonic Scales with Note-Repositioning

By Vinnie DeMasi published

Conceptualizing your scales as a collection of notes that relate to one another and not just as a set pattern to be played in position by rote can open up a number of musical doors

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Soar Along the Neck with the Minor Pentatonic Scale's Overlapping Patterns

By Tom Kolb published

Learn the five pentatonic box patterns and how to connect them like interlocking jigsaw puzzle pieces along the fretboard.

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